Product Manager, Google Cloud Observability

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 163,000 - 236,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Product Manager to guide products from conception to launch, bridging technical and business worlds. You will work with engineering, design, and leadership to break down complex problems and drive product development at scale.

The role focuses on observing, telemetry, and agentic future-ready capabilities within Google Cloud, collaborating with multiple teams to ensure robust enterprise platforms and impactful customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 2 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
• 1 year of experience building agentic technologies, observability features, or data warehouse products.

Responsibilities

• Drive product development collaborating closely with engineering, user-experience design and internal leadership.
• Interact with customers and partners to understand their key requirements and help define a credible product roadmap.
• Partner with other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service teams to understand their requirements, collaborate on joint strategy and measure outcomes
• Drive positioning, pricing, and Go-To-Market strategy for our launches.
• Build the skills and tools to enable Cloud Observability critical user journeys (CUJs) available to any agent harness, including first-party AutoCloud experiences.

Skills

Product management

Technical role

Product lifecycle

Agentic technologies

Observability

Cloud observability

Platform requirements

SRE practices

SLAs/SLOs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product management or a related technical role.
• 2 years of experience taking technical products from conception to launch.
• 1 year of experience building Agentic Technologies, observability features, or data warehouse products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technology or business-related field.
• Experience with service deployment, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and defining Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for enterprise customers.
• Experience identifying platform requirements based on agentic use cases.
• Experience using cloud observability products.
• Experience building agentic tools and evaluations to solve specific use cases.

About the job:

At Google, we put our users first. The world is always changing, so we need Product Managers who are continuously adapting and excited to work on products that affect millions of people every day.

In this role, you will work cross-functionally to guide products from conception to launch by connecting the technical and business worlds. You can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development.

One of the many reasons Google consistently brings innovative, world-changing products to market is because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management. Our team works closely with creative engineers, designers, marketers, etc. to help design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. We're responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analyzing, positioning, packaging, promoting, and tailoring our solutions to our users.

In this role, you will operate at the very heart of Google Cloud, working on hyper-scale, mission-critical systems that generate immense business impact today, while simultaneously defining the next era of cloud operations. You will help us maintain our robust enterprise platform while leading the charge into the agentic future. You will work with critical areas, including scaling the enterprise core to ensure it remains a premier observability solution, designing agent-ready telemetry optimized for Large-Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous agents, and enabling Artificial Intelligence (AI-native) observability and automation for root-cause analysis and closed-loop remediation. Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $163000 - $236000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Drive product development collaborating closely with engineering, user-experience design and internal leadership.
• Interact with customers and partners to understand their key requirements and help define a credible product roadmap.
• Partner with other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service teams to understand their requirements, collaborate on joint strategy and measure outcomes
• Drive positioning, pricing, and Go-To-Market strategy for our launches.
• Build the skills and tools to enable Cloud Observability critical user journeys (CUJs) available to any agent harness, including first-party AutoCloud experiences.